This is tremendous. Last night Bruce Springsteen appeared on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and turned “Born To Run” into a sarcastic commentary on the Governor Chris Christie Bridgegate scandal.
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Kim Gordon is in two scenes in this episode of “Girls.”
The first is 7 minutes 35 seconds into the clip. The other is 14 minutes into the clip.
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Jack White and Revenant Records’ founder Dean Blackwood on Charlie Rose discussing Paramount, the blues, and the Paramount box set, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, that White and Revenant recently released.
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Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston), a Grammy-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator, died today at his home in Shutesbury, Mass. He was 93.
Lateef’s main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, but he also played oboe and bassoon, and used a number of world music instruments, notably the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, Xun, arghul, sarewa, and koto. He is known for his innovative blending of jazz with “Eastern” music, according to Wikipedia.
For more on Yusef Lateef, head to Billboard and TheChattanoogan.com and the Detroit Free Press.
Yussef Lateef Norwegian TV rare = flute solo + “Robot man”
Love Theme From Spartacus – 1961
Eastern Sounds – FULL ALBUM
The Centaur and the Phoenix – FULL ALBUM
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Watch “Austin City Limits’ featuring Neko Case on January 11, 2014.
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Last night Haim performed “The Wire” and “Forever” on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’
“The Wire”:
“Forever”:
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We get hear Cat Power sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” thanks to Apple, and Apple gets to have Chan Marshall singing in their commercial.
long version:
Short version:
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas:
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Last night on “The Colbert Report”:
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Fifty years ago in January of 1963, Bob Dylan flew to England and appeared in a TV play, “The Madhouse on Castle Street,” which was produced and broadcast by the BBC on January 13, 1963. Dylan was to play the lead role in the production, but once he was in England he changed his mind. Instead he played a minor character, Bob the Hobo and performed a number of songs including “Hang Me, O Hang Me,” “Cuckoo Bird,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and the English folk ballad, “The Ballad of the Gliding Swan.”
According to filmthreat.com, the play tells “the tale of a reclusive young man who shuts himself in his boarding house room, with the declaration that he will never come out unless the world changes. In the course of the drama, the young man’s friends and fellow boarding house residents try to discover why he chose to take such a drastic and peculiar course of action. In many ways, the drama was typical of the so-called boarding house plays of British theater during the early 1960s: a motley collection of malcontent souls venting their respective fears and furies in the setting of a cheap, rundown rooms-to-let setting.”
When the production aired, the public heard “Blowin’ in the Wind” for the first time. How the song came to be part of the play was explained by it’s directer, Philip Saville,at whose house Dylan was staying briefly.
“I got up to have a pee and I heard music,” Saville told The Guardian. “I wandered along the landing and there at the bottom, because I had a little baby then, were our two Spanish au pairs. There he was at the top of the stairs, singing, and these two lovely little girls were like two little robins or starlings looking up at him. He didn’t know I was behind him, and I applauded and just said: ‘Oh Bob, would you sing that on the opening and closing of the production?’”
The film of the play was destroyed in 1968. However there is audio of “The Ballad of the Gliding Swan” that is purported to be from the film.
For more on this story, head to filmthreat.com.
Audio of Dylan performing the English folk ballad, “The Ballad of the Gliding Swan”:
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Despite earlier reports, Ray Price is still alive, though he is very ill with pancreatic cancer. His son mistakenly posted on Facebook that his father was dead.
Price’s wife, Janie Price, told The Tennessean he is alive.
Price’s wife Janie posted on Facebook: “At this time our loveable Ray Price is still with. us. When it is the time there will be a official statement.”
Bill Mack, who works with Ray Price, posted this: I just completed a telephone call with Janie Price at 10:15PM, Central. She said Ray’s condition is still in a “coma” mode, is not expected to improve. However, I will have my phone next to the bed constantly … if I decide to “crash-out”. She, or someone at the house, will call if there are any changes that need to be posted. I have spoken with so many of Ray’s peers, all so concerned about the “Chief”. That, and the hundreds of responses from you people, has made me realize the true value of friends. Yes, it’s been a day filled with hurt, but for a purpose: Love, concern … and prayers for Ray’s family. God bless you, thanks.
Below the obit I posted earlier, which is premature. However you still might want to check out the some of Price’s hits, which I’ve posted.
Country singer Ray Price, who scored #1 country hits including “Crazy Arms,” “My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,” and “The Same Old Me,” died today at age 87 at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Price had been suffering complications from pancreatic cancer since late last year.
In addition to charting in the country top 10 (beginning with “Talk To Your Heart” in 1952), for over 30 years, Price is known for his baritone voice and for pioneering the honky-tonk sound still heard in some country music.
For an in-depth look at Ray Price’s career, check out this article in The Tennessean.
Ray Price performs his first #1 hit, “Crazy Arms,” in 1956 at the Ryman Auditorium.
“My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,” 1957:
“Heartaches By the Numbers,” 1959:
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